Release Date:
11/04/2008
Game Platform:
PS3
Price: $59.99
The Skinny: Take control of a beanie bag and embark on a very weird, but satisfying adventure. (Or, make your own.)
The Good: User-generated content, which powers websites like Fark, Wikipedia, and Digg (hey guys, still love us?), but it's rare to find a game that really allows players to express their own creativity. Going full throttle on the UGC train, Sony has built a platform game and a tool that is both uniquely intriguing and entertaining. While the single-player is mostly a training exercise to get you accustomed to the different editing mechanisms, you'll quickly unlock the Create-a-Level mode and you'll be able to access all of the weird levels everyone else in the world have made. Our favorites at the moment are recreations of the first and second levels of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis and the Rick-roll level where someone painstakingly created the Rick Astley song in MIDI form.
The Bad: While the tools given to you aren't really that hard to master, it'll take you a good hour or two to make anything worthwhile. Some of the more popular levels available seem to have taken valuable time away from someone's social life.
Osama Bin Gotcha! The game's original October 21 release date was pushed back in order to remove potentially inflammatory lyrics taken from the Quran found in the third level's background music: "All that is on earth will perish." Yeah, whatever.
Buy, Rent, or Disembowel? Buy it. Just avoid the requisite penis levels.
The Skinny: Take control of a beanie bag and embark on a very weird, but satisfying adventure. (Or, make your own.)
The Good: User-generated content, which powers websites like Fark, Wikipedia, and Digg (hey guys, still love us?), but it's rare to find a game that really allows players to express their own creativity. Going full throttle on the UGC train, Sony has built a platform game and a tool that is both uniquely intriguing and entertaining. While the single-player is mostly a training exercise to get you accustomed to the different editing mechanisms, you'll quickly unlock the Create-a-Level mode and you'll be able to access all of the weird levels everyone else in the world have made. Our favorites at the moment are recreations of the first and second levels of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis and the Rick-roll level where someone painstakingly created the Rick Astley song in MIDI form.
The Bad: While the tools given to you aren't really that hard to master, it'll take you a good hour or two to make anything worthwhile. Some of the more popular levels available seem to have taken valuable time away from someone's social life.
Osama Bin Gotcha! The game's original October 21 release date was pushed back in order to remove potentially inflammatory lyrics taken from the Quran found in the third level's background music: "All that is on earth will perish." Yeah, whatever.
Buy, Rent, or Disembowel? Buy it. Just avoid the requisite penis levels.